Tune-filled and bittersweet, La La Land proved to be a juggernaut when nominations for the 2017 Oscars were announced on Tuesday by the Motion Picture Academy. The original musical for the big screen, a rarity among films these days, La La Land was nominated in 14 categories. That ties the all-time-record set by All About
Trespass Against Us director Adam Smith has praised stars Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson over their work on the film — describing the pair as “brilliant”. The first-time feature film director said they were so good that once he had cast them there was little else for him to do to mould them into the characters he
Sundance over the last four decades has become the film industry’s annual winter treatment. It’s a gathering place at the beginning of the new year where artists, investors, managers, producers, executives and everyone in between see the year’s first new crop of cinema, compare notes, and otherwise have a helluva good time attending myriad corporate
Filmmaker Dilip Mehta’s documentary Mostly Sunny is the unbelievable but true story of Sunny Leone — a small town Ontario girl who ran away to Hollywood, became a leading porn star and then morphed that notoriety into a major career as a Bollywood actress. As a result, Leone is the most Googled celebrity in India.
Contemporary film musical La La Land sported a record-breaking haul at The 74th annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night — making it the overwhelming favorite going into next month’s Academy Awards. That means the movie could be set to make history again, as no original musical has won the Oscar for best picture since
Monster movies tend to be about man’s arrogant superiority over nature — which is why the plots of classics like Them! and Godzilla center around the damaging after-effects of the atomic age. Others like Frankenstein and The Fly examine man’s God complex and his need to tamper with or recreate life which usually ends with cruelty and
The Golden Globe Awards by many standards should not be taken too seriously. The voters consist of just some 80 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, working for far away publications. But over the years the Golden Globes has assumed its own status as an awards powerhouse. It holds a prime spot, near the
Watch an exclusive clip from hard-hitting new movie Sins of our Youth, as MacGyver and X-Men: First Class star Lucas Till threatens co-star Grant Harvey with a gun. The film tells the story of four teenagers who accidentally kill a young boy and the decisions they make in the aftermath of his death. Its theatrical release
Actor-turned-director Joey Klein has spoken to Monsters and Critics about working with real-life couple Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen on his first film The Other Half. The pair star in together in the movie which tells the story of bipolor Emily (Maslany) and grief-stricken Nickie (Cullen), who is mourning the disappearance of his younger brother,
Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki founded Studio Ghibli, one of the world’s most famous production companies, in June of 1985 in Tokyo. Studio Ghibli has experienced great success in domestic and international film markets, with nine of their films amongst the twenty highest grossing anime films of all time in Japan. In 2013,